Telecom titan facing legal trouble: Italian authorities allege he, along with more than 50 other people, were part of a $2.7 billion tax-evasion scheme: Scaglia claiming innocence. Founder and former head of Fastweb, a broadband telecom company that delivers voice, Internet and television over a single broadband connection. Long considered a takeover target, Scaglia had insisted there were no plans to sell; $4.2 billion purchase offer from Swisscom in 2007 was apparently too tempting to resist. Before founding Fastweb in 1999 he was chief executive of wireless outfit Omnitel, now Vodafone Italy.